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Contents (40)
  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. A Note on the Text
  4. Two Gentlemen of Verona
  5. The Taming of the Shrew
  6. Henry VI Part 2
  7. Henry VI Part 3
  8. Titus Andronicus
  9. Henry VI Part 1
  10. Richard III
  11. Love’s Labour’s Lost
  12. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  13. Romeo and Juliet
  14. Richard II
  15. King John
  16. Henry IV Part 1
  17. Henry IV Part 2
  18. Much Ado About Nothing
  19. Henry V
  20. Julius Caesar
  21. As You Like It
  22. Hamlet
  23. Twelfth Night
  24. Troilus and Cressida
  25. Sir Thomas More
  26. Measure for Measure
  27. Othello
  28. All’s Well That Ends Well
  29. Timon of Athens
  30. King Lear
  31. Macbeth
  32. Antony and Cleopatra
  33. Pericles, Prince of Tyre
  34. Coriolanus
  35. The Winter’s Tale
  36. Cymbeline
  37. The Tempest
  38. Henry VIII
  39. The Two Noble Kinsmen
  40. Index of First Lines

I know you all and will awhile uphold [Henry IV Part 1, I, ii, 193] 44

I left no ring with her; what means this lady? [Twelfth Night, II, ii, 17] 71

I see a man’s life is a tedious one. [Cymbeline, III, vi, 1] 103

I will o’ertake thee, Cleopatra, and [Antony and Cleopatra, IV, xiv, 44] 94

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, [The Winter’s Tale, III, iii, 58] 98

I would you had but the wit; [Henry IV Part 1, IV, iii, 85] 49

If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well [Macbeth, I, vii, 1] 91

Ill blows the wind that profits nobody. [Henry VI Part 3, II, v, 55] 15

Is there no way for men to be, but women [Cymbeline, II, v, 1] 102

Is this a dagger which I see before me, [Macbeth, II, i, 33] 92

It is in heaven that I am thus and thus, [Sir Thomas More, Addition III] 76

It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul: [Othello, V, ii, i] 81

It must be by his death; and, for my part, [Julius Caesar, II, i, 10] 57

Let me look back upon thee. O thou wall [Timon of Athens, IV, i, i] 83

Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition! [King John, II, i, 561] 42

Most welcome, bondage! For thou art a way, [Cymbeline, V, v, 97] 105

My thoughts are whirlèd like a potter’s wheel; [Henry VI Part 1, I, v, 19] 25

Nay, ’twill be this hour ere I have done weeping; [Two Gentlemen of Verona, II, iii, 1] 1

Now climbeth Tamora Olympus’ top, [Titus Andronicus, II, i. 1] 23

, Now is the winter of our discontent [Richard III, I, i, 1] 27

Now might I do it pat, now ’a is a-praying. [Hamlet, III, iii, 73] 68

Now, York, or never, steel thy fearful thoughts, [Henry VI Part 2, III, i, 331] 10

O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? [Hamlet, I, v, 92] 62

O blessed breeding sun, draw from the earth [Timon of Athens, IV, iii, 1] 85

O conspiracy, [Julius Caesar, II, i, 77] 60

O God of battles, steel my soldiers’ hearts; [Henry V, IV, i, 282] 56

O, my offence is rank. It smells to heaven. [Hamlet, III, iii, 36] 67

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, [Julius Caesar, III, i, 254] 6

O Romeo, Romeo! – wherefore art thou Romeo? [Romeo and Juliet, II, ii, 33] 36

O that this too too sullied flesh would melt, [Hamlet, I, ii, 129] 61

O, were that all! I think not on my father, [All’s Well That Ends Well, I, i, 78] 82

O what a rogue and peasant slave am I! [Hamlet, II, ii, 547] 63

O world, thy slippery turns! Friends now fast sworn, [Coriolanus, IV, iv, 12] 97

Peace, you ungracious clamours! Peace, rude sounds! [Troilus and Cressida, I, i, 91] 73

Poor naked wretches, wheresoe’er you are, 89